Name: The Patrician
Price: 45.50 CAD
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Author: John Galsworthy
ISBN: 978-1987620177

The Patrician

By John Galsworthy 18 Sep, 2019

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Galsworthy has a wonderfully rich writing style that makes his descriptions of nature and physical surroundings pop off the page in full Technicolor. His presentation of the characters' interior emotional lives is similarly deep and detailed. This creates an interesting contrast to the characters' rigid sense of honor, morality and position in society. In their interactions with one another they are extremely reserved, often cold and, as one of the characters says, "dried up." These characters are smart, well-meaning, and dedicated to public service. They embody the best qualities of the English aristocracy who built and ran the British Empire and made Britain a model of democracy for the rest of the world, and they are smart enough to see that the world is changing so that they will need to adapt to survive, and yet they are mired in the ingrained habits of generations, and this rigidity is the tragic flaw that drives the story - BOOK REVIEWS Less

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